What’s Your Story? The movement toward homegrown self-sufficiency makes this an ideal time to get consumers onboard with domestic fertilizer production, but farmers need to fill the information gap. Photo credit: Market Realist
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I like Ontario Pork’s commitment to social responsibility, and the way it’s expressed in a new consumer-facing initiative – a magnificent cookbook called The Whole Hog.
Over the past decade, Ontario Pork and its 1,000-ish producer members have donated nearly 300,000 pounds of pork to Feed Ontario, the umbrella organization for Ontario food banks. That’s close to two million servings. Photo credit: Ontario Pork
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Inflation is likely to keep consumers home this spring.
A new poll of 50,000 panelists conducted for the Ontario Produce Marketing Association says over the next three months, rising costs will force people to cut back on spending money at restaurants and bars. About half of the respondents said they’ll make fewer trips out. Photo Credit: David Malan/Photographer’s Choice/Getty Images
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If desperate times really do call for desperate measures, then we should all be keeping an eye on what’s being called a food crisis in North Korea. Photo credit: KCNA/Reuters
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Governments are experimenting with assorted ways to help keep the people who elected them fed.
In many cases, that means financial assistance for food. This kind of help is vital, borne out by the historically high cost of food. Photo credit: lovefood.com
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Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.